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What is a fief?

What is a fief? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. An estate held by a person on condition of providing military service to a superior.
  2. Something over which one has rights or exercises control.
  3. (figuratively) An area of dominion, especially in a corporate or governmental bureaucracy.
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King John made up by surrendering his kingdom as a feudal fief to the pope.
It is not, one presumes, the view of the French generals who currently treat the people and nation of Cote d' Ivoire as their fief.
That way, I would retain control of my own fief, and still have the man I loved.
I love my people, the people of my fief, the fief that has been mine since the death of my mother.
I am the custodian of the faith and savings of 30,000 members and I can't turn it into a fief.
The reward for his family was ennoblement and the right to exploit the canal as a fief with rights of seigneurial jurisdiction.

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